Between Death and Life

By Dolores Cannon

Dolores has accumulated information about the Death experience and what lies beyond through 16 years of hypnotic research and past-life therapy. While retrieving past-life experiences, hundreds of subjects reported the same memories when experiencing their death, the spirit realm, and their rebirth.

This book also explores:
* Guides and guardian angels
* Ghosts and poltergeists
* Planning your present lifetime and karmic relationships before your birth
* The significance of bad lifetimes
* Perceptions of God and the Devil
* And much more

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ozark Mountain Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005582067

Dolores Cannon

Dolores Cannon is recognized as a pioneer in the field of past-life regression. She is a hypnotherapist who specializes in the recovery and cataloging of “Lost Knowledge”. Her roots in hypnosis go back to the 1960s, and she has been specializing in past-life therapy since the 1970s. She has developed her own technique and has founded the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Academy. Traveling all over the world teaching this unique healing method she has trained over 4000 students since 2002. This is her main focus now. However, she has been active in UFO and Crop Circle investigations for over 27 years since Lou Farish got her involved in the subject. She has been involved with the Ozark Mountain UFO Conference since its inception 27 years ago by Lou Farish and Ed Mazur. After Lou died she inherited the conference and has been putting it on the past two years.Dolores has written 17 books about her research in hypnosis and UFO cases. These books are translated into over 20 languages. She founded her publishing company, Ozark Mountain Publishing, 22 years ago in 1992, and currently has over 50 authors that she publishes. In addition to the UFO conference she also puts on another conference, the Transformation Conference, which is a showcase for her authors.She has appeared on numerous TV shows and documentaries on all the major networks, and also throughout the world. She has spoken on over 1000 radio shows, including Art Bell’s Dreamland, George Noory’s Coast to Coast, and Shirley MacLaine, plus speaking at innumerable conferences worldwide. In addition she has had her own weekly radio show, the Metaphysical Hour, on BBS Radio for nine years. She has received numerous awards from organizations and hypnosis schools, including Outstanding Service and Lifetime Achievement awards. She was the first foreigner to receive the Orpheus Award in Bulgaria for the highest achievement in the field of psychic research.Dolores made her transition on October 18, 2014. She touched many and will be deeply missed.

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Between Death

and Life:

Conversations

with a Spirit

by

Dolores Cannon

©1993 by Dolores Cannon

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Cannon, Dolores, 1931-2014

Between Death and Life: Conversations with a Spirit; previously titles: Conversations with a Spirit: Between Death and Life by Dolores Cannon

What occurs between death and life, as revealed by numerous subjects through hypnotic past-life regression.

1. Hypnosis 2. Reincarnation 3. Past-life therapy

I. Cannon, Dolores, 1931-2014 II. Reincarnation III. Title

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 92-83931

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Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;

For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow

Die not, poor Death; nor yet canst thou kill me.

John Donne

[1573-1631]

Sonnet: Death

This book was originally written in the early 1990s and has stood the test of time. At that time the subject of life after death was not openly discussed because of the fear associated with it. Now people are more open to talking about it and exploring the unseen realm. In 2013, I decided to update this book because of the questions I have been asked over the years and the additional information that has come forth. Nothing I have written about since I first discovered this subject in 1968 has ever been contradicted. In my 45 years of working in this field only new information has been added as I continue my job as a reporter searching for lost knowledge.

~Dolores Cannon

Chapter 1

The Death Experience

I HAVE BEEN ACCUSED of speaking to and communicating with the spirits of the dead, a definite no-no in religious circles. I had never thought of it in just that way, but I suppose it is true. With the exception that the dead with whom I speak are no longer dead, but are living again today and going about their daily lives. For, as you see, I am a regressionist. This is a popular term for a hypnotist that specializes in past-life regressions and historical research.

Many people still have difficulty accepting the idea that I am able to go back through time and talk to people as they relive other lives down through history. I soon became accustomed to this and found it fascinating. I have written books describing some of my adventures in this incredible field.

With most hypnotists, past-life work is strictly off limits. I don’t really understand why, unless they are afraid of what they might find and would rather stick with known and familiar situations which they are positive they can handle. One such therapist confided in me, as though he had made a real breakthrough, I have tried some regressions. I once took someone back to when he was a baby.

He was so serious, it was almost impossible for me to suppress a laugh as I answered, "Oh? That is where I begin."

Even among other regressionists who work regularly with past-life memories as therapy, I have found many who have their own fears about taking a hypnotized subject through the death experience, or venturing into the periods between lives when a person is supposedly dead. They are afraid something physical might actually happen to the living body of the subject in trance. That somehow they may be harmed by the reliving of these memories, especially if they are traumatic. After going through this experience with hundreds of subjects, I know that there are no physical problems even if the regressed personality died in a horrible way. Of course, I always take special precautions to insure that there will be no physical effects. The welfare of my subject is always my most immediate concern. I feel that my technique completely safeguards the subject. I would not attempt this type of research otherwise.

To me the in-between life plane, the so-called dead state is the most exciting sphere of existence I have encountered, because I believe there is much information to be obtained there that can be of great benefit to humankind. I believe people can come to realize that death is nothing to fear. When they face that time in their life, they can see that it is not a new experience but one they are well acquainted with. They, themselves, have already performed it many times. They will not go into the great terrifying unknown, but to a familiar place they have already visited many, many times. A place that many call home. I hope people can learn to see birth and dying as evolutional cycles that each person goes through many times and are thus a natural part of their soul's growth. After death there is life and existence in the other planes that is just as real as the physical world they see around them. It may be even more real.

Once while talking to a woman who considered herself enlightened, I was trying to explain some of the things I have found. I told her I did research into what it is like to die and where you go afterwards. She asked excitedly, Where do you go ... Heaven, Hell or Purgatory?

I was disappointed. If those were the only choices her mind would accept, it was obvious the woman was not as enlightened as she thought.

Exasperated, I replied, Neither!

She was shocked. You mean you stay in the dirt?

THUS I REALIZED that in order to write this book, I must retrace my steps to where I stood when the door first opened and try to remember my beliefs and thoughts as they were before the light entered. No easy task, but necessary if I am to understand and relate to those still searching for that door and that light. For I must speak to them in terms they can understand and try to lead them gently down the path of awareness. Then they can live their lives to the fullest without fear of what tomorrow brings.

To many people the word death seems so forbidding, so final, so hopeless. A black void of mystery and confusion because it represents a cutting-off from the physical world, which is the only place they definitely know with certainty exists. Like many things in life, death is unknown, shrouded in mystery, folklore and superstition, and thus to be feared. Yet it is something that we know everyone must eventually experience. No matter how much we wish to push it to the back of our minds and not think about it, we know that the body is only mortal and will someday expire. What happens then? Will the personality that we consider to be ourselves also perish with the physical shell? Is this life all there is? Or is there something more, something rare and beautiful beyond what we know as life? Maybe the churches are correct when they preach about Heaven for the good and pious and Hell for the evil and damned. With my insatiable curiosity I am always searching for answers and I believe there are many others who also share this craving to know. It would make life so much easier if we could live out our time in happiness and love, not fearing what lies at the end.

When I first began my regression research I had no idea I would find the answers to any of these questions. Being a history enthusiast I mostly enjoyed going back through time and talking to people in different eras. I enjoyed reliving history as it was being made, and as it was seen through their eyes as they remembered their other lives. I wanted to write books about their versions of these historical periods, because each unknowingly corroborated the others' stories while in deep trance. There are patterns I did not expect to find. But then something unexpected occurred that opened up a whole new world for me to explore. I discovered the period between lives, the so-called dead state, the place where people went after they left a physical life here on Earth.

I can still remember the first time I stumbled through the door and spoke to the dead. It was during a past-life regression and when the subject died on me, it happened so quickly and spontaneously that I was taken off guard. I was not fully aware of what had happened. I don't know what I expected would occur if someone were to go through a death experience. But as I said, it happened so quickly, there was not time to stop it. The person was looking down at their body and saying they looked just like any other corpse. I was amazed that the personality had definitely remained intact S it had not changed. This is important. This is a fear that some people have: that somehow the experience of dying will transform them or their loved ones into something different, strange or unrecognizable. Again, it is the fear of the unknown. Why else are we so afraid of ghosts and spirits? We think that somehow the process of crossing over will change them from the beloved person we knew into something evil and frightening. But I have discovered that the personality remains the same. Although on some occasions it experiences momentary confusion, it is still basically the same person.

When I overcame my shock and wonder of being able to speak with someone after they had died, my curiosity took over and I was filled with questions I had always wondered about. From that time forward, each time I found a subject who could go into the deeper states of hypnosis required for this type of research, I made a practice of asking some of the same questions. Religious beliefs seem to have no influence on what they reported. Their answers were basically identical each time. Although worded differently, they were all saying the same thing S a phenomenon in itself.

Since I began my work in 1979, 1 have had hundreds and hundreds of people go through the death experience. They have died in every conceivable manner: accidents, shooting, stabbing, fire, hanging, decapitation, drowning, and even in one case by death in an atomic explosion, which I reported in my book A Soul Remembers Hiroshima. They have also died naturally from heart attacks, disease, old age and peacefully in their sleep. Although there has been a great deal of diversity, there have also been definite patterns that have emerged. The manner of death may be different but what happens afterward is always the same. Thus I have come to the conclusion that there is really no reason to fear death. We subconsciously know what happens and what lies over there. We should; we have had so much practice at it. We have all gone through it countless times before. So in my study of death, I have found the celebration of life. It is far from being a morbid subject, but a most fascinating other world.

With death also comes wisdom. Something happens with the shedding of the physical body and a whole new dimension of knowledge opens up. Apparently the human being is limited and hampered by being in the physical. The personality or spirit that continues on is not hindered in this way and can perceive so much more than we can even imagine. Thus when I talked to these people after they had died, I was able to obtain the answers to many puzzling and perplexing questions-questions that have haunted humankind since the beginning of time. What the spirit reported depended upon the personal spiritual growth of that spirit. Some had more knowledge than others and were able to express it clearer in terms that were easier for us mortals to grasp. I will attempt to describe what they experienced by letting them speak for themselves. This book is a compilation of what many people reported.

THE MOST COMMON DESCRIPTIONS I have found of the moment when death occurs is that there is a feeling of coldness and then suddenly the spirit is standing by the side of the bed (or wherever) looking at their body. They usually can't understand why the other people in the room are so upset because they feel so wonderful. The overall sensation is one of exhilaration rather than dread.

The following is a description of the moment of release by a woman in her 80s who was dying of old age. It is an example that is typical and constantly repeated.

D: [Dolores] You lived a long time, didn't you.

S: [Subject] Um, yes. I move slow, takes so long. (Moaning) There's not much joy any more. I am so tired.

Since she was obviously experiencing discomfort, I moved her ahead in time until the death was over. When I finished counting the subject's entire body jerked on the bed and she suddenly smiled. Her voice was full of life, nothing that even resembled the weary tones of only a moment before. I feel free! I'm light! She sounded so pleased.

D: Can you see the body?

S: (Disgusted) Ohh! That old thing? It's down there! Ohh! I had no idea I looked so bad! I was so wrinkled and shriveled. I feel too good to be that shriveled. It was all wore out. (She was making sounds of delight.) Oh, oh, I'm so glad I'm here!

I could hardly keep from laughing, her expression and tone of voice was quite a contrast.

D: No wonder it was shriveled; that body lived many years. That's probably why it died. You said you are here, where are you?

S: I'm in the light, and oooh, it feels good! I feel intelligent... I feel peace ... I feel calm. I don't need anything.

D: What are you going to do now?

S: They tell me I've got to go and rest. Oh, I hate to rest when I've got so much to do.

D: Do you have to rest if you don't want to?

S: No, but I don't feel like I want to be cramped again. I want to grow and learn.

After this I was unable to get any more answers from her except that she was floating. I could tell by her expression and her breathing that she was in the resting place. When a subject goes there it is as if they have drifted into a deep sleep and they don't want to be disturbed. It is useless to try to question them because their answers will be incoherent.

This special place will be explained in further detail later in the book.

IN ANOTHER CASE a woman was reliving the birth of a baby at home. Her breathing and bodily movements showed that she was experiencing the physical symptoms of childbirth. This often occurs when the body remembers as well as the mind. In order not to cause the subject discomfort I moved her ahead in time to when the birth should have been over.

D: Did you have the baby?

S: No. I had a difficult time. It just wouldn't come. I was wore out, so I just left my body.

D: Do you know what the baby was?

S: No. It doesn't make any difference.

D: Can you see your body?

S: Yes. Everybody's upset.

D: What are you going to do now?

S: I think I'm going to rest. I've got to come back eventually, but I'm going to stay here awhile. I'm in the light. It's restful.

D: Can you tell me where this light is?

S: Where all knowledge and everything is known. Everything is pure and simple. There is more pure truth here. You don't have the things of the world to confuse you. You have the truth on Earth but you just don't see it.

D: But you said you have to come back sometime. How do you know that?

S: I was weak. I should have been able to tolerate the pain. I must learn to better withstand it. I could have stayed if I hadn't been so weak. I'm glad I can't remember the pain. I know I need to go back and I must become complete, whole. Pain is one thing I must overcome. I must overcome all the pains of the world.

D: But experiencing pain is very human and it's always difficult to do when you're in the body. From the side you're on now, it's easier to look at it in a different way. Do you think that's a lesson you want to learn?

S: I will, yes. It takes me awhile sometimes, but I can do anything. I think I should have been stronger. I would have done better, but I think I had a lot of fear from the illness I had when I was a child. I was afraid that this would be as bad. And ... I gave up. Pain ... when you deal with the higher conscious level of your mind and remove yourself to the pure light and the pure thought; the pain ceases to be. Pain is only a lesson. When we learn about pain on the human level, we get frantic and show outward concern for just the moment. By removing ourselves and concentrating and reaching deep and having patience, we can rise above it.

D: Does pain have a purpose?

S: Pain is a teaching tool. Sometimes it is used to humble certain people. Sometimes a haughty spirit can be brought down and taught to be more gracious through suffering. It may teach them that they must eventually learn to rise above the pain, and then they can deal with it. Sometimes just understanding pain and why we have it, lessens the pain.

D: But like you said, people become frantic and they think they can't handle it.

S: They become too self-centered. They need to rise above their own interests and what they're feeling at the moment to a more spiritual level and then they can deal with it. Now, some people, they bring the pain on because it's a shelter. They may have the pain as an excuse or as an out, and that's the purpose. It varies with the individual. What is pain? It cannot touch you if you don't let it. If you admit that you will hurt, you're giving power to pain. Do not give it power. It's unnecessary to feel it. It's all connected to man. Reach into your spirit, your higher mind, it has no hold on you.

D: People can separate themselves from pain?

S: Of course, if they want to. They don't always want to. They want the sympathy and self-punishment and all sorts of things. People are funny. Everyone knows how to do these things if they take the time. They must find a way for themselves because they wouldn't believe it if you told them there was an easier way. They have to figure it out on their own. That's part of the lessons that get you there.

D: People are so afraid of dying. Can you tell me what it is like when it happens?

S: Well, when I'm in the body it feels heavy. It pulls on me. It's just uncomfortable. But when you die it's a lifting of weight. It's relaxing. People carry all those problems around. And it's like they are carrying around a weight because they are heavy and laden with all these other things. When you die it's like tossing them out the window and it feels good. It's a transition.

D: I guess people are mostly afraid because they don't know what to expect,

S: They fear the unknown. They must just have faith and just trust.

D: What happens when somebody dies?

S: You just rise up and leave it. You go up here. In the light.

D: What do you do when you're there?

S: Perfect all things.

D: Where do you go if you have to go away from the light?

S: Back to Earth.

D: Is it unusual for us to speak to you through time like this?

S: But time has no meaning. On this frame there is no time, all time is one.

D: Then it doesn't bother you that we speak to you from another time or plane?

S: Why should it?

D: Well, we thought it might and I didn't want to disturb you.

S: I find that it disturbs you more than it does I.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE concerns a little girl who died at the age of nine. When I first began speaking to her she was going on a hayrack ride to a school picnic in the late 1800's. There was a creek near where the picnic would be held and the others would be going swimming. She couldn't swim very well and was afraid of the water, but she didn't want the other children to know it for fear they would make fun of her. Since some of the others had fishing poles, she had decided she would pretend to fish so no one would know she couldn't swim. The little girl was really worrying about it and was not enjoying the hayride at all. I told her to move forward to an important day when she was older. When I finished counting, she announced happily, I'm not there anymore. I'm in the light. This was a surprise, so I asked what had happened.

S: (Sadly) I couldn't swim. The dark just closed in on me. I felt my chest burning. And then I just came out into the light, and it didn't matter any more.

D: Do you think the creek was deeper than you thought?

S: I don't think it was that deep. I got real scared. I think my knees just folded up and I couldn't stand up. I was just scared.

D: Do you know where you are?

S: (Her voice was still childish.) I'm in forever.

D: Is anybody with you?

S: They're working. They're all busy ... contemplating what they have to do. I'm trying to get the hang of everything.

D: Do you think you've ever been to this place before?

S: Yes, it's very peaceful here. But I'll go back. I must overcome fear. Fear is something you bring on and it is paralyzing. I don't really think the water was deep. I think I doubled up because of my fear. The worst thing that can happen usually isn't near as bad as what we fear. (The voice was now more mature.) It's a monster in man's mind and fear only affects those on Earth. It's the carnal mind. The spirit is left unaffected.

D: Do you think when people are afraid of things that they draw it to them?

S: Oh, yes! You bring those things upon yourself. Thought is energy; it is creative and it makes things happen. It's easy to see how another person's fears can be silly and unimportant and you think, Why would they be afraid of that? Yet when it's your fear, it's so deep and so personal and so touching that it just engulfs you. So if I can look at other people's fears and try to help them understand theirs, I think somewhere along those lines it would help me understand the ones I had.

D: That makes a lot of sense, You know one of the biggest fears people have is that they are so afraid of dying.

S: That's not so bad. That's the easiest thing I'll ever do. It's, like the end of all confusion, until you start all over again, and then it's more confusion.

D: Then why do people keep coming back?

S: You must complete the cycle. You must learn all and overcome all the things of the world so you can enter into perfection and everlasting life.

D: That's a big order though, to try to learn everything.

S: Yes. Sometimes it's very tiring.

D: Seems like it would take a long time.

S: Well, from where I am here it all seems so simple. I am in control. For instance, I can understand the fear, and the way I feel now; I feel like I couldn't be touched by it. Yet there's something about the human person. When you're there, it engulfs you. I mean, it becomes part of you and it touches you and it's not so easy to stand off and be objective.

D: No, it's because you're emotionally involved. It's always easy for somebody else to look at it and say, How simple.

S: It's like looking at somebody else's fears. I must learn to endure and stay with a life and not leave until I can take as much as I possibly can from that life. I think if I had a life that I could stay with to go through many experiences, it would be much easier than going through so many short lives. I'm wasting a lot of time. So I will choose carefully to get one where I can experience many things and therefore limit my trips back. But I also think it will be harder. There are certain things you have to work out between people while interacting in a relationship. What you do comes around.

There has long been an expression in our culture, that when you are dying, your life flashes before your eyes. This has occurred in some of the cases I have investigated. It happens more often after death when the deceased looks back over their life and analyzes it to see what they have learned from it. This is often done with the help of the masters on the other side, who are able to look at the life more objectively, with emotions removed.

One of my subjects was able to review her past life in an unconventional way. Although it's difficult to say what is conventional and what follows a set pattern when you're working in this field of regressive hypnotic research.

The woman had just relived a past lifetime through regression and had come to the point of death in that life. She died peacefully as an old woman, and watched as her body was taken to a hilltop near her home to be buried in a family cemetery. Then instead of going on to the other side, she decided to return to her home to try to complete some unfinished business. There she was startled to find herself appearing as a ghost, and having the ability to walk through walls. She saw herself as a fog or mist in the shape of a person, but she was amazed to discover that furniture and objects could be seen through her, as though she was transparent. It was very interesting to her to find herself in this strange condition, and she wandered through the house discovering what she was able to do. At one point she

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